Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine

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Georgetown University Press (2004)
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Health, Disease, and Illness brings together a sterling list of classic and contemporary thinkers to examine the history, state, and future of ever-changing "concepts" in medicine.

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Ambiguous sex—or ambivalent medicine.Alice Domurat Dreger
Forward: Renewing medicine's basic concept.Edmund D. Pellegrino
The premenstrual syndrome: a brief history.John Te Richardson
What's morally wrong with eugenics.Art Caplan
'Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race'.  (pages 28--39)Samuel A. Cartwright
Report on the diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro Race.(Originally published in 1851.) Reprinted in: Caplan AL, McCartney JJ, and Sisti DA (eds.). Health, Disease, and Illness. Concepts in Medicine. [REVIEW]  (pages 28--39)Samuel A. Cartwright
Malady: A New Treatment of Disease.  (pages 29-37)K. Danner Clouser, Charles M. Culver & Bernard Gert
The normal and the pathological—introduction to the problem.  (pages 40--42)Georges Canguilhem
The myth of mental illness.  (pages 43--50)Thomas S. Szasz
On the distinction between disease and illness.  (pages 49-68)Christopher Boorse
The politics of menopause: The discovery of a “deficiency” disease.  (pages 187--200)F. McCrea
The concept of genetic disease.  (pages 233--42)David Magnus

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Report on the diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro Race.(Originally published in 1851.) Reprinted in: Caplan AL, McCartney JJ, and Sisti DA (eds.). Health, Disease, and Illness. Concepts in Medicine. [REVIEW]Samuel A. Cartwright - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press. pp. 28--39.
The myth of mental illness.Thomas S. Szasz - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press. pp. 43--50.
'Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race'.Samuel A. Cartwright - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press. pp. 28--39.
The concept of genetic disease.David Magnus - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press. pp. 233--42.
The premenstrual syndrome: a brief history.John Te Richardson - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press.
Ambiguous sex—or ambivalent medicine.Alice Domurat Dreger - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press.
The politics of menopause: The discovery of a “deficiency” disease.F. McCrea - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press. pp. 187--200.
Forward: Renewing medicine's basic concept.Edmund D. Pellegrino - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press.
The normal and the pathological—introduction to the problem.Georges Canguilhem - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press. pp. 40--42.
What's morally wrong with eugenics.Art Caplan - 2004 - In Arthur L. Caplan, James J. McCartney & Dominic A. Sisti, Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine. Georgetown University Press.

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Dominic Sisti
University of Pennsylvania
James J. McCartney
Villanova University
Arthur L. Caplan
New York University

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